The Dandy - Issue 3536

THE DANDY - ISSUE 3536


Let's try and revive my blog and go back to normal schedule shall we? Okay, this week's Dandy was incredible, from front to back this comic was beautiful, 44 pages of brilliance, what made it so brilliant? This is what:


PG 1: Front Cover: Pre-Skool Prime Minister - Jamie Smart
PG 2: Jokes (with Pre-Skool Prime Minister) - Jamie Smart
PG 3: What's Inside? (with guess who? That's right, Pre-Skool Prime Minister!) - Jamie Smart
PG 4: Pre-Skool Prime Minister - Jamie Smart 
PG 6: Harry and his Hippo - Andy Fanton
PG 8: Madvertisement: The Money Tree - Nigel Auchterlounie
PG 9: Shorts: Britain's NOT got Talent - Karl Dixon, Simples! 101 Ways to use a Meerkat (No. 87) - Wayne Thompson, Freddy the Fearless Fly - Phil Corbett, Old MacDonald's Facebook Farm - Karl Dixon
PG 10: The Mighty Bork - Wayne Thompson (Au revior Bork!)
PG 12: Justin Beaver - Stu Munro
PG 13: Yore - The Etherington Brothers
PG 14: Bone-O - Mike Donaldson
PG 15: Sea Dogs - Steve Beckett NEW!
PG 16: Bananaman - Wayne Thompson 
PG 18: Puzzle: Get the Wind Up! - Steve Beckett
PG 19: Shorts: Not the Greatest Car Parker - Dave Mostyn, Simples! 101 Ways to use a Meerkat (No. 88) - Wayne Thompson, Knock! Knock! - Garry Davies, Britain's NOT got Talent - Karl Dixon
PG 20: Create a Comic: George VS Dragon - Andy Fanton
PG 21: Harry Hill's Real Life Adventures in TV Land - Nigel Parkinson
PG 25: Competition: Make a Monster
PG 26: Clown Wars - Nik Holmes
PG 27: Smashed Hits: Pokerface - Unknown (Mark Bennington perhaps?) :/
PG 28: Puzzle: Gaz of the Titans: The Maze of the Golden Fleece - Nik Holmes
PG 29: Shorts: Saint Evils - Stephen Walker, Not the Greatest Cook - Dave Mostyn, Britain's NOT got Talent - Karl Dixon, Simples! 101 Ways to use a Meerkat (No. 89) - Wayne Thompson
PG 30: Dandy Subscription Page 
PG 31: The Gleeks - Nigel Auchterlounie
PG 32: The Bogies (Hot Snot) - Nigel Auchterlounie
PG 33: Madvertisement: 3D Comic - Nigel Auchterlounie (with a nice mention of Winker Watson and Greedy Pigg, hopefully a little clue to two characters returning! ;) )
PG 34: Mailbag 
PG 36: Advert: Dandy YouTube Channel, Dandy website
PG 37: Korky the Cat - Phil Corbett
PG 38: Puzzle: Gaz of the Titans: The Lair of Medusa - Nik Holmes
PG 39: Shorts: Terror Byte - David Banks, Simples! 101 Ways to use a Meerkat (No. 90) - Wayne Thompson, Britain's NOT got Talent - Karl Dixon, Jibber and Steve - Nigel Auchterlounie
PG 40: George VS Dragon - Andy Fanton
PG 42: Desperate Dan - Jamie Smart
PG 43: Next Week (Harry Hill's Real Life Adventures in TV Land, Bananaman, Korky the Cat, Worst Superheroes Ever!)
PG 44: Back Page: Continued Back Page (Desperate Dan, Harry and his Hippo, Dragon (from George VS Dragon), Little Eric (with Ant and Dec), Zeke, the Blue Blobs, The Foreign Thingy Man from PSPM and some Chef...)


ROUND UP:
TOTAL OF PAGES: 44
TOTAL OF COMIC STRIPS: 19
TOTAL OF COMIC STRIP PAGES: 27
TOTAL OF ADVERTS: 1
TOTAL OF DANDY RELATED STUFF (that's not a comic strip): 17


Not bad! :D


NEW/BRING BACK:
Harry and his Hippo
Pre-Skool Prime Minister
Terror Byte
Jibber and Steve


RATINGS:
PRE-SKOOL PRIME MINISTER - 10/10
Brilliant seeing it back and I really enjoyed, loved the drill bit! :D
HARRY AND HIS HIPPO - 10/10
Best story this week! Beautiful two pager by Andy with a fantastic storyline, loved the taking over bit with the title! Classic cartoon humour!
THE MIGHTY BORK - 9/10
Very sad to see it go, such a good strip, loved Corporal Clott and Colonel Grumbly's cameos, Wayne should seriously bring them back!
JUSTIN BEAVER - 9.5/10
Not enough cameos for me plus the story wasn't brilliant this week but still very high.
YORE - 8/10
Lovely artwork yet a poor storyline, what a shame.
BONE-O - 9/10
Quite liked it, nice story, reminded me of Foxy but with a dinosaur and a cockerel with an iPhone. 
SEA DOGS: 10/10
Beautiful, just beautiful, Steve has done a brilliant job!
BANANAMAN - 9.5/10
Not too heroic sadly but still funny story, I seriously thought the animal was hanged! ;)
HARRY HILL'S REAL LIFE ADVENTURES IN TV LAND - 9/10
God I hate that title. anyway not bad, felt it only needed to be 2 pages though with the speech bubbles.
CLOWN WARS - 10/10
YAYY!! Hurrah rah for guest appearances! Loved Desperate Dan Solo and the ending, brilliant!
THE GLEEKS - 10/10
So funny, thought I'd hate this strip but I LOVED IT!
THE BOGIES - 10/10
Ha ha! Love Hot Snot, love the innocent passenger, love Gobzilla, love the artwork. Brilliant stuff!
KORKY THE CAT - 9/10
Okay-ish. Korky looked a bit camp...
GEORGE VS DRAGON - 10/10
Two pages, lovely artwork, funny story, just brilliant. Very entertaining indeed!
DESPERATE DAN - 10/10
Aww bless... Poor Dan! Loved it! 


BRITAIN'S NOT GOT TALENT (Strip 1) - 5/5
SIMPLES! 101 WAYS TO USE A MEERKAT (No. 87) - 4/5
FREDDY THE FEARLESS FLY - 4.5/5
OLD MACDONALD'S FACEBOOK FARM - 3/5
NOT THE GREATEST CAR PARKER - 4/5
SIMPLES! 101 WAYS TO USE A MEERKAT (No. 88) - 5/5
KNOCK! KNOCK! - 3/5
BRITAIN'S NOT GOT TALENT (Strip 2) - 5/5
SAINT EVILS - 5/5
NOT THE GREATEST COOK - 4.5/5
BRITAIN'S NOT GOT TALENT (Strip 3) - 5/5
SIMPLES! 101 WAYS TO USE A MEERKAT (No. 89) - 5/5
TERROR BYTE - 5/5
SIMPLES! 101 WAYS TO USE A MEERKAT (No. 90) - 3/5
BRITAIN'S NOT GOT TALENT (Strip 4) - 5/5
JIBBER AND STEVE - 4.5/5


FREE GIFTS:
Mystery Gift (Mine was the Agent Dog 2 Zero's Kitty Hitter)
Haribos (Tangfastics) (Unlucky Rose! :( )


So yeah, end of the review. This week's was brilliant, you'd be a fool not to miss it!
The Dandy, 44 Page Mega Comic, £2.50, on sale now!

The Phoenix Comic

It's looking very promising indeed, after the saddening fall of the DFC comic I believed it was all over for the company, and then this happens, a brand new comic named the Phoenix Comic, does it look good? We don't know yet, but I can say I love the logo!

The logo for the Phoenix Comic

It's claimed to be a humour/adventure comic which I quite like the sound of, I hope there's more humour than adventure but I doubt it. Anyway, here's a promotion poster for the comic which tells you a lot of info, a lot more than I can say! ;)

Ooh, poster!!

Four frame funnies eh? Maybe trying some mini strip stories like the Dandy? Not surprised really, they work like a charm, we have mini strips/shorts as well in the Wizzo!

The only thing that worries me is 'Real World Wonders', apparently this comic is non-fictional as well, that makes it surely more like a magazine! :O

Hopefully they'll use some old DFC comic strips as well as new ones, I'd love to see more of Fish Head Steve, Vern and Lettuce, Bodkin and Bear and Little Cutey. All brilliant strips!

Check out the Phoenix website for more information including a helpful comic blog!

The Beano - Issue 3586

The Beano - Issue 3586

Sorry for the delay, tests, Wizzo and so on so yeah... Anyway, I'm back, that's good news isn't it?!

So, The Beano, first review in around 13 days or so. So, on with the review!

PG 1: Front Cover: Dennis and Gnasher - Barrie Appleby
(Incredibly poor compared to last week's. Looked like it was put together in 10 minutes...)
PG 2: Advert: Donkey Kong Country Returns
(1. 2 page advert. Yippee. -.- 2. DK Country Returns came out AGES ago, why advertise it now?!)
PG 4: Contents
PG 5: Dennis and Gnasher - Barrie Appleby
PG 8: Ratz - Hunt Emerson
PG 9: Advert: Beano Comic Maker Kit and Beano Summer Annual
PG 10: The Numskulls - Barry Glennard
PG 12: Minnie the Minx - Ken Harrison
PG 14: Meebo and Zuky - Laura Howell
PG 15: BSK Pull Out Cover
(1. What happened to 'BSK Fact File'? 2. Same picture now 3 weeks in a row...)
PG 16: The Bash Street Kids - David Sutherland
PG 18: Playground Pleasers
PG 19: Ball Boy - Dave Eastbury
(I don't care what the Beano Review say about Dave, he's one talented man.)
PG 20: Retro Beano: The Country Cuzzins - Hugh Morren
(Yippee! I've never heard of this strip! Nice choice because it's not one a lot of people had heard of.)
PG 21: Gimme! Gimme!
PG 22: Fred's Bed - David Sutherland
PG 24: Fred's Foul Facts
(Brilliant new title, looks fantastic! Only problem is it's a bit too big now meaning less facts....)
PG 25: Beano Subscription Page
PG 26: Billy Whizz - Nick Brennan
PG 27: Advert: LEGO Pharoh's Quest
PG 28: Roger the Dodger - Robert Nixon
(I'm sorry but what on earth. What was going on here? I'm very scared how Roger's feet are twisted around. O.o Also what's with the joke being a mirror image one, in other words 'flipped'?! Also doesn't take much to fool Roger's mum...)
PG 30: Gnasher's Bite - Jimmy Hansen
(Sadly not on the back cover, and why is that... Cos there's two frickin' adverts on the second to last and back page!!) >:(
PG 31: Advert: Donkey Kong Country Returns Puzzle
PG 32: Advert: Donkey Kong Country Returns

ROUND UP:

New part in my blog:

TOTAL OF PAGES: 32
TOTAL OF COMIC STRIPS: 12
TOTAL OF COMIC STRIP PAGES: 19
TOTAL OF ADVERTS: 6
TOTAL OF BEANO RELATED STUFF (that's not a comic strip): 8

The rest of my blog entry will be coming soon!

I've found another one!

Okay, you're probably wondering, 'what do you mean?' well, I can explain. 


On the Dandy Facebook Page, a kid by the name of Josh Champion posted 3 comic strips of past Dandy characters (which can be found here, here and here), I got in touch with him and soon he got a deviantART account, from here it was simple, after he uploaded some AMAZING artwork I asked whether he wanted to join the Wizzo, to which he basically replied yes. 


He got to work and started producing stories for a new comic strip which was originally just an adventure series of his own but then became a Wizzo story... Anyway, I'm now rambling on so I'll just get to the point... 


The first of Josh's strips is called 'Team Time', it's a brilliant strip which involves 3 kids, one from 1911 called Timothy (some humour having him in black and white unlike the rest of them!), one from the present day called Timmy and the final boy from the year 2111 called Tinny, all three are related and it's the same kid through different time periods. You can read the first and second strips here and here! 


The second strip is a combined effort between Josh and I, it's a short strip (soon we're having a third page of shorts for you! Ooh you lucky people!) anyway, Josh does the drawing and I write some of the scripts. So far there's been 3 Baldy strips with more on the way! You can read them here, here and here. It's basically about a man who's been very unfortunate to be named 'Baldy' by his parents, anyway, the strips show the good and bad things to being bald and his crazy adventures of trying to get hair and so on. Also as if that's not bad enough, he's soon introduced to the 'Bald Hate Club' who basically go after bald people. Poor, poor Baldy...


Anyway, that's about all for now, be sure to check out his devaintART page and follow him on his Twitter page, okay, that's about it so yeah, bye and stuff!